SEATTLE — There is, quite clearly, a long list of mistakes for the Bears defense to correct in the wake of Friday's blowout exhibition loss to the Seahawks. After the first string surrendered a touchdown on each of the first four drives and fell behind 31-0 by halftime, several veterans were eager to turn disappointment into opportunity by analyzing the video of what exactly went wrong.

Nose tackle Jeremiah Ratliff, though, didn't need a film review session to know one problem at the top of that list. It's an issue Bears coaches emphasized earlier in the preseason, and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson shined a spotlight on it Friday.

"We definitely have to work on rush lanes, as far as pass rush," Ratliff said. "It was exposed with the good quarterback who had great poise, great feet and able to buy time with his feet."

The Bears can be thankful the NFL's scheduling formula spares them a matchup against Wilson in the regular season. But this rebuilding defense — obviously a work in progress — faces a string of mobile, athletic quarterbacks early in the season.

The Bears don't return to practice until Monday at Halas Hall, leaving extra time to let the embarrassment of Friday's 34-6 road loss to the Seahawks soak in.

Coach Marc Trestman promised his players he'd spend his Sunday thoroughly assessing the film to compile the extra-long list of errors. And...

The Bears don't return to practice until Monday at Halas Hall, leaving extra time to let the embarrassment of Friday's 34-6 road loss to the Seahawks soak in.

Coach Marc Trestman promised his players he'd spend his Sunday thoroughly assessing the film to compile the extra-long list of errors. And...

(Dan Wiederer)

Any of those passers could review the Bears' ineptitude against the Seahawks and envision a day that would make fantasy football owners swoon.

"We face in the first three games mobile quarterbacks who are going to run zone read, who are going to get out of the pocket and try to extend plays with their legs," coach Marc Trestman said. "So this is going to be a good tape for us to look at, and we've got to make the corrections. Just talking to our players and coaches before looking at the tape, there's a sense of confidence that these things will be fixable."

Wilson completed 15 of 20 passes in the first half for 202 yards and two touchdowns, good for a 140.0 passer rating. He also ran four times for 23 yards and a touchdown.

When the Bears didn't maintain their rush lanes, he made them pay.

"We spoke about it before, but it's one thing to talk it and to do it," linebacker D.J. Williams said. "He's a talented quarterback, very elusive guy. He gets out of the pocket not to run but to continue the play and throw. That's what he did. He kept a lot of drives going."

On first-and-10 from the Seahawks' 42-yard line on their second series, right defensive end Willie Young engaged tight end Zach Miller and held the block, but he didn't push Miller deep enough to keep Wilson in the pocket.

Wilson escaped the pocket to the left and flicked a pass to receiver Jermaine Kearse, who was wide open because cornerback Charles Tillman fell down. Kearse gained 16 yards.

Young's dilemma, as he explained it, was caused by Wilson's dual threat. Either push the pocket and risk Wilson stepping up and running, or hold the block and let Wilson extend the play as a passer behind the line of scrimmage.

"You can't be right and you can't be wrong," Young said. "You've just got to get to him before he lets the ball go. You've seen him do some exotic stuff in the backfield with the ball in his hands. He's a great quarterback. Guys like that, you can't practice for it, you can't coach for it."

Wilson hurt the Bears with his legs several more times. Two plays after the completion to Kearse, he avoided Ratliff's sack attempt, scrambled for 4 yards and drew a personal foul by Lance Briggs.

The most glaring example was Wilson's 7-yard touchdown run on third-and-goal late in the first quarter. Young rushed off the right edge past Wilson and out of the play, while nose tackle Stephen Paea was pushed inside. That created a wide lane for Wilson to exploit as a runner.

That was one of seven third downs the Seahawks converted. They were perfect in the first half in that category.

That's what was so disconcerting about Friday's game. The Bears' first-string defense resembled the porous unit they've spent the last eight months trying to rebuild.

It didn't sit well with veterans on the defense. But they refused to let one night full of breakdowns destroy the optimism with which they approach the regular season.

"We wanted to see where we were, and now we see," Ratliff said. "We see a lot of things that we need to correct and work on. And it was pretty bad. But the good thing is all this stuff is fixable. We've just got to go back and just take care of it.

"We're not going to go into some panic mode or bicker or complain or make excuses or anything like that. We're just going to man up, look at the film, see what needs to be corrected and address it, period."